Citations:congest

English citations of congest and congests

Noun

1. tenant farmer living on land whose resources do not support him adequately
   • 1907 September 27, Earl of Dudley questioning Rev. J.P. Callanan Tenth report of the Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland Cd.4007 p.151 Question 56614a:

     —Then to whom would you give this land, a congest in Galway with a £10 valuation or a congest in Mayo with a £5 valuation?

     —I think I would give it to the man with the £5 valuation. I would give him as much land as would give him a fairly economic holding, but I would not give him all the land he wanted.

   • 1923 July 4, Patrick J. Hogan Dáil debates Vol.4 c.187

     let us take it that the Land Commission buy 1,000 acres of land ... There may be one congest in the neighbourhood and when he is dealt with, the balance is all for landless men.

   • 1923 July 27, Sir John Keane Seanad debates Vol.1 c.1477

     Relief of congestion means the relief of congests—taking men who are congests and putting them into larger holdings, and thus making a larger number of economic holdings throughout the country.

   • 1963 April 7, Michael Moran Dáil debates Vol.208 c.1131

     What Deputy Flanagan wants to do is to write into the law a provision whereby the Land Commission would be compelled to give four farms to the four sons of a farmer, where land was available, to the exclusion of any congest and to the disruption of Land Commission policy.

   • 1978 May 9, Mark Killilea Dáil debates Vol.306 No.4 p.38 c.542

     Mr Killilea asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will instruct the Land Commission to serve a section 40 notice on the owners of the Conroy estate, Ballinakilla, Togher, Tuam, County Galway, which is about to be sold, taking into account the great number of congests surrounding this estate.